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Location: Green Bay, WI | Will the hatch be saved? |
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| NOT A CHANCE! Although there will be success from those that spawned in Shawano and in the river as the river dropped.
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| +1 to the above post.
Most of the eggs are high and dry. River is down at least 5 feet compared to last year. This will be the year of the few not the many. |
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| I'm not a fish biologist, but I once stayed at a Holiday Inn. I suspect the trawling will show better results than the doom and gloom picture painted here. |
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Location: Menasha, WI | stick bait - 4/21/2009 8:08 AM
River is down at least 5 feet compared to last year.
I don't think comparing the river to last year is the best idea -- last year we had extremely high water and no-wake zones all the way down to the mouth. I'm not saying that the current conditions are just fine, only that comparing to last year might not be the best baseline. |
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| I believe the hatch from the Fox will be one of the better we have seen, especially with the work done on the marsh there.
Edited by RSR 4/21/2009 12:11 PM
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| It doesn't matter. So many fish make the spawning run that even in terrible conditions it still puts out a great year class, just because of the huge number of spawning fish that make the run. --thats straght from the fish biologist.
Last year the water was not even that high (still much higher than this year of course), then it dropped fast right after the spawn. That should have made for an awful hatch, but it turned out to be very successful.
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| What happens in April matters, but what happens in May, June, and July matters just as much or more.
Anyone that tells you the KNOW how this year class is going to be before October is making some assumptions. |
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| If the "majority" spawn between April 1 and April 15 in the marshes and they dry up before the end of April, the hatch is not going to be that good! (Thats plain science) The fry need 14-21 days before they can get out. You tell me a 30" drop immediately after the spawn over those 21 days is not going to affect it, I'll tell you to share the stuff your smokin!
Good Luck
Tyee
Good Luck
Tyee
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| It is April 29th. There is NO way you can predict right now if there will be a decent number of new walleye's in the lake on October 29th. Will it be the best hatch ever? No, probably not. But not every fish in the system spawns in the wolf river marshes and not every fish that wanted to use the marshes would have dumped her eggs prior to the levels starting to drop.
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| tyee - 4/28/2009 3:11 PM
If the "majority" spawn between April 1 and April 15 in the marshes and they dry up before the end of April, the hatch is not going to be that good! (Thats plain science) The fry need 14-21 days before they can get out. You tell me a 30" drop immediately after the spawn over those 21 days is not going to affect it, I'll tell you to share the stuff your smokin!
Good Luck
Tyee
Good Luck
Tyee
False. it does not always take 14-21 days. My brother is a fish biologist and said alleye eggs can hatch in as soon as 24 hours and it may only take a couple days (depending on time of year and water tempss). And like mentioned above there are so many fish in the system that spawn that even if only 1% drop their eggs in a place that can survive we will witness a hell of year class again. |
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Location: WI | In a hatchery at 60 degrees it takes 8 or 9 days.
Edited by Utts 5/4/2009 3:38 PM
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Location: Appleton wi | IMHO is will be. water is high now and has been for a week. alot fished dumped on rocks instead of weeds and grass but we all wont know til fall when the DNR does the yearly sampling. |
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